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Serial groper faces MBTA assault charges

Dane Mullin, 27, of Salem, was arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court on May 7, 2013, on one count of indecent assault and battery for a December 2012, incident on a train traveling outbound on the E Line.

BOSTON -

A Salem man already on probation for groping two women at North Station has been charged with assaulting a third woman on a Green Line train, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

Dane Mullin, 27, was arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court Tuesday on one count of indecent assault and battery for a December 2012, incident on a train traveling outbound on the E Line.

Mullin was ordered held on $8,000 bail for the new charges and ordered held without bail for allegedly violating the terms of his open probation and on open warrants charging him with failure to register as a sex offender and assault and battery, both out of Salem District Court.

Investigators said Mullin groped a woman just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 17, 2012, between Haymarket and Government Center. The woman got off the trolley after the assault and reported the incident to MBTA police. The woman gave detectives a description of the groper.

Using surveillance images from multiple stations and after sharing information with local police departments, Transit Police detectives identified Mullin as a suspect in the Dec. 17 incident.

Mullin pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault and battery in August 2011 for a pair of incidents at North Station on March 5 of that year. The assaults were committed against two women who did not know each other. He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison with 18 months to serve and the balance suspended until July 31, 2013.

Mullin has prior similar convictions out of Cambridge, Chelsea and Salem, and may face additional charges arising out of the Transit Police investigation, investigators said.

Mullin will return to court on June 6.

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